“The Arab Spring has slowed the UAE’s trade with the five countries affected by the unrest. According to a report by the Ministry of Foreign Trade, there was a 32 per cent decline in the first quarter of 2011 compared with the fourth quarter of 2010..”
GulfNews has the full story here.
A recap for new visitors to the site who would like to know a little more about Ewan and his career story..
Ewan Sherriff is a highly successful commercial lawyer working from a new home of Dubai, UAE . Ewan has accumulated many years commercial experience in several sectors, and this article charts his career progression from his graduation to the present day.
Upon completion of his academic curriculum at the University of Dundee in 1990, Ewan Sherriff relocated to Edinburgh to commence his 2 year articling practicum in Trusts, Residential Property, Litigation and Commercial Property laws with Morison’s LLP; then regarded as a progressive, entrepreneurial firm. In August of 1992, he was deemed professionally competent and was called to the Law Society of Scotland as a fully fledged lawyer.
Having long held an interest in commercial real estate, Ewan made an early career decision to specialize in the commercial sector . He chose to join Semple Fraser in late 1992, due to their concentration of high-profile, cross-border transactions and clientele in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Manchester, UK. During this period Mr Sherriff was a direct assistant to one of the founding Partners, which afforded him exponential experience in the full life-cycle of Commercial Real Estate transactions, from purchase through to Asset Management and leasing.
Ewan was pinpoint recruited by Archibald Campbell & Harley of Edinburgh in 1993, and at the age of 28, he made history as this one hundred year old firm’s youngest Partner, known for it’s forward-thinking attitude and it’s expertise and market commentary. Midway through his eight year tenure at Archibald, Ewan’s professional undertakings became more concentrated on business development. Ewan Sherriff also drafted a full suite of precedents encompassing Commercial Leases, Rent Review Agreements, Licences for Work, Reporting Procedures, Trusts and construction documentation; that continue to be in production.
In the years 2001-2004, Ewan Sherriff was one of sixty-five Partners at the UK-wide firm of Shepherd + Wedderburn. Sherriff focused on increasing his exposure and developing his expertise in the investment and development fields; whilst establishing and maintaining a select client base at this historically blue blood practice. Working out of the Edinburgh location, Ewan was charged with developing the Real Estate Department, which included human resource, accounting, office management, cost management, and budget management cross-functionalities. Mr Sherriff regularly advised on Limited Companies, Limited Partnerships, Jersey Property Unit Trusts, Offshore Vehicles and Trusts, in association with Channel Island colleagues and professionals. He was also widely conversant in all aspects of UK Stamp Duty Land Tax, Single Purpose Vehicles laws and UK & Channel Islands Corporate Governance.
In 2004, Ewan was recruited as a Partner, to implement a new real estate department at Dickson Minto, one of the UK’s leading corporate finance and private equity firms. During his five year career there, Ewan Sherriff created one of the best known, high exposure real estate practices in the UK by regularly transacting fantastic high-profile deals, which subsequently quadrupled turnover and team size within three years of inception.
“General Shaikh Mohammad Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Abu Dhabi Crown Prince and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, received Mustafa Abdul Jalil, Chairman of Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC), at Al Mina Palace on Sunday. During the meeting, they discussed several developments in Libya following the victory achieved by the Council and Libyan people..”
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Just wanted to share this great resource for anyone thinking of moving to Dubai (or indeed any expats already out here). The site in question details many aspects which you may not have considered.
Take a look here.
“The European Central Bank is due to hold emergency talks on whether to start
buying Italian debt to contain spreading turmoil on financial markets. Growing worries over debt in the eurozone and the US caused sharp falls on
world stock markets last week..”
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Finance ministers from the G7 major economic powers are also to hold
emergency talks on how to calm the markets before they reopen on Monday.
Ewan has offered some input into a short article about Dubai. You can see a small extract below, and read the full article here.
“The well known sanctuary of Dubai is branded almost everywhere in the entire world as being a paradise on Earth, and is the 2nd largest of the 7 ‘emirates’ which together make up the The UAE. Dubai is ruled by the Prime minister of the federation of the UAE, Sheikh Maktoum Bin Rashid Al Maktoum.
Dubai is actually a developing city which has experienced an incredibly swift rise from sparse desert in the early 1990′s to a lively urban centre of well over 3 million individuals less than 20 years later. Approximately 80% of Dubai’s residents consists of Expatriates. The religions of Hindu, Christianity along with Muslim are most prominent with merely around 5% of the population practicing other religions. The official language in Dubai is Arabic yet English is quite frequently practiced, specifically regarding business dealings.
Adjusting to the climatic conditions in Dubai is often incredibly challenging due to quite high typical temperatures (50F – 120F) and an almost non-existent annual rainfall.”
Here is a snippet of a new article published on ArticlesJam.com recently;
“Ewan Sherriff started his traineeship at Alex Morison & Co in September 1990 and it extended until the end of August 1992. Ewan had four seats during his two years, Wills Trusts and Executries, Residential Conveyancing, Litigation together with Commercial Property. It was the latter which took his fancy, long having expressed an interest in that area, thus Ewan departed for Glasgow to enroll in Semple Fraser Haniford DiCiacca, where Mr Sherriff was successful right up until May 1993 before being lured back to Edinburgh by Drew Wallace and David Cockburn of Archibald Campbell & Harley..”
You can continue to the complete article here
